Curious about Supplements?
Are you interested or thinking about taking vitamins or supplements, but feel overwhelmed with all the options available and endless amounts of information online?
You are not alone. Supplements have become very popular in today's world. Average folks and celebrities alike who are trying to achieve "optimum health" and staying young forever are taking tons and tons of supplements a day!
I think with some common sense we all would know that for optimum health, we should be getting everything we need from our foods. But of course we do not these days in the world of processed and fast foods, and carb overloads. We also know that chemicals deplete our foods from some of their natural nutrients, because of how we farm them, preserve them, and store them. This makes things more tricky. A healthcare practitioner, whether conventional or alternative need be consulted at least, before one goes out and buys all sorts of unneccessary, costly, and potentially even dangerous supplements. Just because your friend or family member has done all kinds of reading on the latest natural, antioxidant-full, immune boosting supplement, it may be harmful to your own unique system and potentially interact badly with other medication(s) you are on, or cause an overdose in your own system.
Celebrity nutritionist, Kimberly Snyder, C.N. does advocate taking a few supplements, such as probiotics or a multivitamin with B and D3. Read her great blog post on "The Scary Risks of Taking too Many Vitamins and Supplements," along with "Do You Really Need All Those Vitamins?." She discusses how synthetic vitamins are chemicals, which may be toxic for our systems.
As this is an immense and serious topic, I thought I would suggest a few other websites to check out and do some additional reading:
- Consumer Reports.org's take on vitamins and supplements
- Dr. OZ has his take of course on "Ten Myths About Vitamin Supplements"
- naturalhealthmag.com has an artilce: "The Vitamins You Need Now," which is an interesting one, because it breaks them down into different lifestyle categories.
- the trusted site, Mayo Clinic has some great advice on whether we need supplements or not and who needs them most.
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Could you tell me if Equine Power Juice would be considered a supplement? I’ve been taking it lately to help with my jogging, but I’m worried that it might affect my liver. Maybe I should do a little more research online…